The arms race is now joined between Web sites offering free papers to download and sophisticated software that can detect plagiarism instantly. ie: Turnitin.com.
Where a bad grade can jeopardize chances for medical school. For the “overachievers,” cheating isn’t a vice. It’s a survival skill.
Want to know
It’s the product that counts, not the way it was produced.
No wonder students “borrow” texts and “share” answers. That’s the Digital Native outlook, and too many digital mores affirm it for an honor code to correct it.
Learn
last year whenBenenson Strategy Group surveyed 7th-12th graders, 35 percent admitted to cheating by cell phone during a test. One quarter of them texted answers, and one-fifth searched the Internet. Fully 52 percent admitted to Web-based cheating of one kind or another.
When learning becomes 'information sharing,' knowledge isn't absorbed and interpreted, it's retrieved, passed along and forgotten.
It’s the 21st century, they shrug, and the last thing they want is to appear behind the times.
Know
The arms race is now joined between Web sites offering free papers to download and sophisticated software that can detect plagiarism instantly. ie: Turnitin.com.
Where a bad grade can jeopardize chances for medical school. For the “overachievers,” cheating isn’t a vice. It’s a survival skill.
Want to know
It’s the product that counts, not the way it was produced.
No wonder students “borrow” texts and “share” answers. That’s the Digital Native outlook, and too many digital mores affirm it for an honor code to correct it.
Learn
last year when Benenson Strategy Group surveyed 7th-12th graders, 35 percent admitted to cheating by cell phone during a test. One quarter of them texted answers, and one-fifth searched the Internet. Fully 52 percent admitted to Web-based cheating of one kind or another.
When learning becomes 'information sharing,' knowledge isn't absorbed and interpreted, it's retrieved, passed along and forgotten.
It’s the 21st century, they shrug, and the last thing they want is to appear behind the times.